How Chicago Transformed From a Midwestern Outpost Town …
WEBOct 12, 2018 · The promise of Chicago’s geography was immediately obvious to the first Europeans who passed through the site in 1673.
French and French Canadians - Encyclopedia of Chicago
WEBThe French were the first Europeans to venture west of the Great Lakes region. Coureurs de bois, literally “wood runners,” began to appear in the 1670s. In search of trade with Native Americans , these young men paddled their way along both the eastern and western shores of Lake Michigan and then up the creeks and rivers they discovered ...
History of Chicago - Wikipedia
WEBThe first settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790. [8] [9] [10] He left Chicago in 1800.
Illinois - Chicago, Prohibition & the Great Chicago Fire - HISTORY
WEBNov 9, 2009 · French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans to visit Illinois in 1673. The region was ceded to Britain following the French and Indian War. After the...
STORY 1: Chicago Portage National Historic Site/Sitio Histórico ...
WEBIn 1634, Explorer Jean Nicollet was the first known European to encounter Lake Michigan and what is now Wisconsin. In 1673, Father Marquette and Jolliet crossed the Chicago Portage on their return voyage exploring the Mississippi River, and Jolliet proposed a canal for the portage which came to be in 1848. Fur Fuels Expansion.
Timeline: Early Chicago History | American Experience | PBS
WEB1671. "Chicagou at the Lower End of Lake Michigan" is first mentioned in a report by Father Pierre Charlevoix. 1673. May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the...
Louis Jolliet - Wikipedia
WEBWhile Hernando de Soto was the first European to make official note of the Mississippi River by discovering its southern entrance in 1541, Jolliet and Marquette were the first to locate its upper reaches, and travel most of its length, about 130 years later.
The Chicago Portage | Oak Park River Forest Museum
WEBThe first true settlement of Chicago by Europeans was Fort de Chicago, built by French Jesuits in 1683. 11 The Fort served as a French outpost until it was abandoned in about 1705. During this period there was extensive use of the portage by traders, as beaver pelts passed through on their way to Paris.
Chicago - History | Britannica
WEBBeginning with Father Jacques Marquette and French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet in 1673, a steady stream of explorers and missionaries passed through or settled in the region, but it was not until 1779 that the first non-Native resident made it his permanent home: Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable maintained a thriving trading post near the mouth ...
History of Chicago, Illinois
WEBThe first European settlement on the present site of Chicago was the Mission of the Guardian Angel. Established in 1696 by Father Francois Pinet, a Jesuit priest, it was abandoned in 1700. In 1779, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian, built the first permanent settlement at the mouth of the Chicago River.
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